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OpenRA Open Source RTS July Release Is Out

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA is the excellent open source engine to allow you to play with the units & buildings from the Red Alert and Command & Conquer series of games. They have released their July engine version with some awesome additions.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.23 Is Now Available.

By sobkas,
Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.23 bringing many new features and as many as 42 bugfixes.

Open Source FPS/RTS Hybrid Unvanquished Alpha 29 Released

By Liam Dawe,
The great looking Unvanquished has once again pushed out a major alpha bump to the game bringing it that step closer to a more stable and feature filled game.

Open Source Morrowind Engine OpenMW 0.31.0 Released

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest OpenMW has been released which pushed the engine even further to allow us Linux gamers to play the excellent Morrowind natively.

Open Source UFO: Alien Invasion 2.5 Released

By Guest,
After more than two years of development, the team behind UFO: Alien Invasion has finally released a new stable version of their open source tactics game.

Vote For GOG To Make Galaxy Open Source

By FutureSuture,
Galaxy will launch this year, so a number of folks in GOG's community have suggested that it should be open source. A list of reasons speak for this, but what do you think?

OculusVR Buys RakNet Networking Engine & Open Sources It

By Liam Dawe,
Remember all the doom and gloom surrounding Facebook buying OculusVR? Well nothing has really changed, and thankfully they are still being a great company. They have recently purchased RakNet a cross platform C++ networking engine and they open sourced the damn thing.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.22 Is Now Available.

By sobkas,
Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.22 bringing many new features and as many as 68 bugfixes.

Game Develop Game Creation Kit Becomes Open Source

By Liam Dawe,
In a very surprising move Game Develop a game creation engine that doesn't require programming has become open source. This is after the failed Indiegogo campaign, but it still happened anyway. Hooray!

The Wine Development Release 1.7.21 Is Now Available.

By sobkas,
Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.21 bringing many new features and as many as 77 bugfixes.

OpenXcom 1.0 Released, Play The Original XCOM In An Open Source Engine

By Liam Dawe,
One of the best strategy games ever made now has a game-ready open source engine. OpenXcom is designed for original X-COM game UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM UFO Defense to allow you to play them on modern operating systems.

The Wine development release 1.7.20 is now available.

By sobkas,
Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.20 brining many new features and as many as 88 bugfixes.

Games On AMD FOSS Drivers 2

By Half-Shot,
Hey people, got a really nice graph to show off today. On a follow up from my last article, loads more work has been done to Mesa and the Radeon driver, and the speed improvement from 10.0.3 to 10.2 is phenomenal.

OpenRA New Release, An Open Source Engine For Early Westwood RTS Games

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA is a really great project for people who remember games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun & Dune 2000 as this engine uses the units and building from those games using the legally released free downloads for them in a much more up to date engine.

Valve Are Funding A Big Change To Mesa, Should Improve Linux Graphical Performance

By Liam Dawe,
Valve really do seem to be the champions of Linux right now. Even if you don't like Steam you cannot deny just how much they have done for our ecosystem already.

PlayCanvas 3D WebGL Game Engine Now Open Source

By Liam Dawe,
PlayCanvas is the "world’s easiest to use WebGL Game Engine". It’s free, it’s open source and it’s backed by "amazing" developer tools. Well now isn't this interesting.

Project Of The Month July 2014

By pheonton,
Voting for the Project of the Month July 2014 is now open! 10 open source Linux games are nominated: Widelands, FlighGear, StepMania, CrossFire, KeeperRL, Unvanquished, PokerTH, HyperRogue and GLPortal.

Open Source FPS/RTS Hybrid Unvanquished Alpha 28 Released

By Liam Dawe,
Unvanquished sure is one of the prettiest open source games around isn't it? Like clockwork they have released a new alpha with a bucket-load of changes.

KeeperRL Open Source Dungeon Sim Alpha 8 Released, Major Changes Included

By Liam Dawe,
KeeperRL is the up-and-coming open source dungeon sim that recently hit their funding goal on indiegogo to expand. They have also just release a big alpha update to the free and open source game.

Pixel Dungeon Procedural Death Labyrinth Turning Open Source

By Liam Dawe,
Pixel Dungeon is a traditional procedural death labyrinth game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface. Originally designed for Android the game is going to be open sourced soon, which means a port for Linux opens up!
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